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The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies – $325
by rgonzalezr
In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves and others outside the production of commodities for the market. Illich proposes that sometime in the last 50 years society passed through a threshold where “modernized subsistence” was achieved and all our modern real needs were met. At this point we reached the maximum level of individual satisfaction through […]
Categories: Economía y Política, Educación, Lectures, Sociología • Tags: 2000, Consumption, Education, employment, Ivan Illich, jobs, Lectures, Marion Boyars, political, politics, production, Social, Sociology, Unemployment, Work